Primary Geography in Sgau Karen, A.
Eamion-2,000, mustrated. 8vo, original red morocco (1" split top of front hinge; edges & corners rubbed). Rangoon: American Mission Press, 1865. Only Edition.
A RARE ILLUSTRATED BURMA PRINTED JUVENILE GEOGRAPHY. Copiously illustrated, the American section has the American eagle, the American seal, an almost full-page illustration of George Washington, as well as pastoral scenes. Mrs. Thomas, born in Boston, a descendant on one side of Miles Standish, and on the other of John and Priscilla Alden, spent most of her adult life in Burma, dying at the mission at Insein in 1895. She and her husband, Rev. Benjamin C. Thomas, went to Burma in 1849, where he opened the Karen department at the mission in Henzada on the Irrawaddy River.
"For forty years she hardly knew a well day, and yet what achievements!...Never was she more in her element than when engaged in tender, personal conversation with some one who, she was striving to win for Christ. No wonder at the number of spiritual children from different races, who at the various memorial services held for her at Henzada, Tharrawaddy and Sandoway were ready to ‘arise and call her blessed.’ Preachers Burman and Karen , ascribe their conversion to the direct, loving efforts of 'Mamma' Thomas, as they love to call her, so that now through many lips 'she be dead yet speaketh.’"
-Baptist Missionary Magazine, vol. 76, 1896, p. 241.
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